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Show HE2 Kj city ess: BY FITZ-MAC ELY, White Pine County, Nev, April 19. Gentlemen of the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial Clib: I have the honor to ad-knowledge ad-knowledge the receipt of your clean and attractive little folder entitled "See America First," which, as Carlisle would say, suggests several things. That your puissant organization should interest Itself in the dissemination of such a pretty and patriotic idea Indicates Indi-cates the growth in Salt Lake of an admirable esprit du vllle which cannot be too highly commended. : But, In the name of all the deronl-tlon deronl-tlon bow-wows,'. why are a body of brainy, bony, woolly Western hustlers and history-makers like yourselves bothering your great heads with pretty work like that when the world's first great . Battle of Billions Is coming to a draw' here at Ely, Just beyond your city limits, so to sayT Faugh! gentlemen of the Commercial Commer-cial club! Leave that pretty work to the ladles. Divorce your sturdy, masculine mas-culine Western minds from such little, lit-tle, huckstering, pie-counter schemes. Make a bold, brave dash for the sovereignty sov-ereignty of the great West! Imperial City of West. Get a hump on yourselves and consecrate conse-crate your splendid, rude. Western energies en-ergies to the generous purpose of making mak-ing Salt Lake the imperial city of the whol trans-Mississippi country, by winning win-ning for yourselves and your town this battle of billions that Is coming to a draw today at Ely, Just across' the It costs, you can't afford not to have It. Judge Goodwin estimates that you-can you-can put & road Into Ely for less than two millions. . I . offer no estimates at all, but I tell you to hump yourselves and put four roads into Ely as fast as you can, even If they cost forty millions. mil-lions. .. . t Pray, don't get in ,a sweat, gentlemen gentle-men of the Commercial club, because I talk to you like a Dutch uncle. I think a heap of Salt Lake, and want to see the city get what's coming to it; and I tell you once for all that the thing for you to do Is to make yourselves solid with Ely and, pack your clothes la her trunk. Opportunity Is Passing. ".' "You'll have to hurry or this great big opportunity will get past you as so many others have. Today Ely Is your Mary Ann if you come to her with a few railroads. Tomorrow she may have other, wooers and be disposed to spit on you.' Don't go and fool yourselves, your-selves, with the notion that there ain't any other, wooers, for I'm giving It to you straight that when San Francisco wakes up to the boundless possibilities of the case and recalls the opulence that came to her from the Comstock bonanzas, with their measley little output out-put of only-t450,000,000by- the official record, she'll see. that she can better afford te spend a great many , tens of millions on railroads than let the wealth of a camp fourteen thousand millions practically In - sight and assured,- get away from her copper ore that can be mined with steam shovels, as at the Pewable Iron mines, and load a forty-ton car . every three minutes and keep up that lick night, and day for more 'than rifle hunri hh nttv desert from your blooming orchards and your green cow pastures.. Spring Into the fray with courage in your hearts and you'll carry the battle on the skirmish skir-mish line. Bind the illimitable mineral wealth of this marvelous camp to your city with binders of steel (railroad steel, seventy pounds to the yard) and there will be a thousand fortunes In It for citizens of Salt Lake and assured Industrial In-dustrial prosperity for a term pf 300 years straight ahead. Get Solid With Ely. My word to you, gentlemen of the Commercial club, first, last and all the time, Is make Salt Lake solid with Ely or bust your old municipal locomotive. In the effort. Your little "See America First" dodger Is all right, of course, and I thank you for sending It; but I'm talking talk-ing to you about a bigger game than working the shells on a dreary procession pro-cession of limited-ticket tourists, and my earnest word to you before you commit yourselves and your beloved Salt Lake to the ignominious career of peddling Mormon photographs to globetrotting globe-trotting gazaboos, or selling them painted chips as they do at Los Angeles, An-geles, Is to see Ely first. .... I tell you, gentlemen of the Commercial Commer-cial club, you can no more make . a great -city with small men than you ran make 'a silk' purse out of a sow's ear, and It Is the harboring xf small Ideas, small motives, small ambitions that makes men small; therefore,' I Implore Im-plore -you not to condemn "the ambitions ambi-tions of your citizens, by your example, exam-ple, to the small occupation, of steering cheap travelers against cheap boardlng-lng boardlng-lng houses, at a time when the finest battle of billions that the Industrial world has ever witnessed is coming to the crisis here at Ely, Just across the lots from your city limits. . years. Ely's Great Store of Wealth. That will give you a rough idea of the unparalleled wealth of mineral In this stupendous copper deposit at Ely. It's the biggest mineral show on earth, and don't you' forget it. It's bigger big-ger than Montana, bigger than Michigan, Michi-gan, bigger- than Arizona, bigger than Utah bigger than all of them dumped together. You missed the chance of your lives, gentlemen of the Commercial club, when you let the mines of -Ely slip through your fingers. You could have had them all seven years ago for $5 an acre. Seven years hence they will look cheap at $500,000 an acre. Now you will miss the next big chance of your life If you let the business of Ely get away from" you, To make Salt Lake solid with Ely means three hundred years of prosperity prosper-ity and greatness of Salt Lake. . At the very lowest calculation that you can make on this' stupendous copper deposit at Ely It is good for an output of about fifty millions a year for a term of three hundred years. .Don't take my word for it, gentlemen of the Commercial club. That's too big a story to take oij. any man's word. Figure it out for yourselves. . Here are the facts: Billion Tons 'of Of e. !An ore body (practically "In sight') 85.000 feet 'long, 300 feet wide and 150 feet thick. Fifteen feet of that ore will make a ton and mixing all those dimensions di-mensions together In the right way will show a little better than a billion tons of ore carrying ZM per cent of copper to the ton 70 pounds and $1 In gold and silver. The totals will stand thus: fVrtm t0 AfA MM AAA ..... "" l.WW.UUU.UW Pounds of pure copper.......... 70.000,000.000 Gold and silver values .........$ 1,000,000 000 Market value of copper at 18c per pound 12,950,000.000 Totsl In round numbers. ...$14,000,000,000 Others More Sanguine. Now that Is the very lowest estimate you can get any mining engineer in this camp to accept Most of them scout the suggestion of any thickness less than 350 feet for "the stratum of secondary enrichment," that would produce a total value nearly two and a half times greater than I figure. But In addressing a body of Influential business men like yourselves I wish to speak with great moderation and avoid all appearance of a desire to rush the monrnera. The Old-Time Sturdy West. You know, or you have some Idea, of how the ambitions and motives of the whole young,' rough, sturdy, courageous cour-ageous West were stimulated, energized and broadened by the discovery and development of the great Comstock bonanzas bo-nanzas In Nevada, forty years ago? You remember that? You know how many men quickly expanded to the bigness big-ness of that great occasion and became big, splend!dK admirable men? You know -what those men did for San Francisco? You know they pulled it out of the ditch of timidity and despondency de-spondency and made It a strong, self-confident self-confident city, able to take the directing direct-ing hand In the development of Call-fomla. Call-fomla. You know all that, of course? Hint to Wise Salt Lakers. Well, a hiit to the wise is as good as a kick. Salt Lake today is about in the same condition as San Francisco was forty years ago about the same population, about the same wealth, about the same prospects, its big fortunes for-tunes in the hands of about the same number of 'superannuated stiffs, grown too suspicious and timid to swap a To bill for a $10 gold piece. 'Nough said., San Francisco had her Comstock, and. as Denny Reilly said, "she rlz to the opportunity." Ely Salt Lake's Comstock. Salt Lake has her Ely. and It remains re-mains to be seen whether your honorable honor-able organization, as the most Influential Influen-tial organized body of her citizens, ts going to prove a useless aggregation of self-complacent chumps or a bold and admirable company of Western hustlers, hus-tlers, possessing the spirit, the energy and the intelligence to rise with a spring to the great opportunity that today confronts Salt Lake, and make your city solid with Ely by building a few railroads into White Pine county to handle the stupendous tonnage of heavy ores which Ely and her other copper and lead camps can furnish to your smelters. Must Have Railroad. I shall not go into details Judge Goodwin has been doing that to render ren-der the proposition attractive by showing show-ing that t will not cost much and will be profitable. Judge Goodwin's talk' Is all right, and over here at Ely we are all grateful to him and THE TELEGRAM TELE-GRAM for their efforts to make the business men of Salt Lake understand the magnitude of the opportunity.. But I only say to you, gentlemen of the Commercial club, that, no matter what Fourteen thousand millions (,14,000,-000,000) (,14,000,-000,000) Is more than thirty times the official Government record, of the output out-put of all the great bonanzas of the Comstock lode. Those bonanzas drew to the several camps of the vicinity a population of 40,000, and therefore, y parity of reason, rea-son, this stupendous- mineral deposit at Ely should draw over thirty times 40,000. I do not myself think It will draw so many as that, but no one can say. There are signs In the air of a record -breaking mining rush to come soon to old White -PfjtOfrunty and fourteen billions is an amazing mass of mineral value when you come to think about it seriously. I haven't statistics at hand and must speak from general impressions, but I think It is just about enough to buy all the property of all the States west of the Mississippi at its tax valuation and then go east of the river and buy all of Vermont and New Hampshire, Maine,' Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida on the same basis., Ely Not All of County. But, gentlemen of the Commercial club, I desire to impress upon you that Ely, great as it isgreater by tens of billions than any mineral deposit ever before found on earth is not the Whole of White Pine county.. Old. White Pine Is a mineral empire equal in size To the whole State of Massachusetts over 8000 square miles and rich beyond your ready belief in the heavy ores of copper and lead, so much needed by your Salt Lake smelters. My candid impression is that with the incredible mineral wealth of Ely left out of the reckoning altogether it would be a profitable enterprise for 8alt Lake to build about three single-track lines into this extensive and opulent mineral empire of White Pine county. Finally, gentlemen of the Commercial club, thanking, you for the pleasant courtesy of your very clever and interesting inter-esting little "See America First" circular, circu-lar, which seems to me to embody a valuable Idea, I have the honor to submit sub-mit for your distinguished consideration considera-tion the foregoing reasons why you should not fail not on your Imperishable Imperish-able tintypes to see Ely first to get your hooks lp. Always, .. . . v FITZ-MAC. 1 |